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(06-04-2019 05:26 PM)doss2 Wrote:  

(06-04-2019 04:00 PM)robertfoshizzle Wrote:  

(06-04-2019 03:06 PM)Helicopter Wrote:  I don't understand.

2015-16: Decent rated recruit (interest from Tenn) plays for WKU (low division I)
2016-17: Transfers (down?) to Indian Hills CC (JUCO)
2017-18: Transfers (up) to NMU (mid division I)
2018-19: Transfers (down?) to Tenn Tech (low division I) -- sits out year
2019-20: Transfers-grad (up) to UC (high division I)

Does any of this make any sense at all?

I'll take a stab at it.

2015-16: Plays one year at WKU, then his coach (Ray Harper) leaves, so he decides to transfer. Rather than sitting one out, he decides on a JUCO year to try to get an offer from a bigger school.

2016-17: Plays at Indian Hills CC and exhausts his JUCO eligibility, then gets the offer from New Mexico, which is an upgrade from WKU and decides to head west.

2017-18: Plays one year at New Mexico, and decides to transfer. Maybe he's homesick? Not sure exactly, but he's from Tennessee, so he decides to transfer.

2018-19: Sits out his transfer redshirt year at Tennessee Tech. After his redshirt year, he loses yet another coach, and with better opportunities out there to play high-major basketball, decides to grad transfer to Cincinnati.

Excellent analysis. No one has said he had legal or behavior issues so let us give him a pass. And to his credit I guess he graduated.

I don't really think it was his call to leave WKU.

(Second paragraph)

"McNeal and Hunter – along with former WKU player Fredrick Edmond – were suspended in March of 2016 following a University Disciplinary Hearing after the three were found to have violated the school’s code of conduct. Coach Ray Harper also resigned partly as a result of that hearing."

https://www.wbko.com/content/sports/Form...11124.html

I'm not sure when McNeal committed to New Mexico, but Craig Neal was fired in 2017, and Paul Weir took over for 17-18. Don't know if he committed to Neal and gave the new guy a chance or just wanted to go home.